Word: accepting
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Certainly, there are inequities in Ford's program, which had been opposed as too gentle by the Justice and Defense Departments and some Congressmen. It falls well short of the blanket postwar amnesty that past Presidents extended, and few were rushing to accept it until they could figure out just how it would be administered. If in practice the leniency stressed by Ford prevails over the fairly harsh provisions of the plan, many exiles may return. If the plan is rigidly applied, relatively...
Under the provisions of this new financial aid system, the individual departments of the GSAS were permitted this year to accept lowerranked students who did not need financial aid and to "skip over" higher-ranked but more needy students...
...passed this summer; practically no one, on either side of the issue is even satisfied with it. But despite the fact that it can only lead to more controversy, few people have paid much attention to the bill since its rather dramatic enactment last month. The anti-abortion forces accept it because a more restrictive bill might have been challenged in the light of the Supreme Court's January 1973 decision on abortion, and most people who are in favor of abortion accept the bill on the theory that it is "not all that...
...lesson of human experience is that there are only two roads to historic rehabilitation for men caught like Nixon. One is to stand trial by a jury of peers, accept the verdict and whatever punishment may be meted out. The other is to make a full confession. Nixon has rejected both...
Eventually, Park will probably have to accept a settlement that falls short of his maximum demands. If he does not, South Korea will pay a heavy price, since it is heavily dependent on Japanese foreign aid and investment and cannot afford a total break in relations. Meanwhile, the surge of Korean nationalist feeling offers a temporary domestic benefit to Park: he can use anti-Japanese emotions to divert attention from his repressive policies at home. That, at least, was the opinion of many Japanese, who felt certain that last week's demonstrations had in part been carefully stage-managed...